North Star with Ellin Bessner
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Venezuelan Jews in Canada feeling joy, uncertainty after Maduro capture
Jan 12, 202635 min
Cindy Schwartz joins Order of Canada: her performing arts school trains dancers, actors, singers living with disabilities
Jan 9, 202622 min
'We need people to come forward': Winnipeg police update synagogue antisemitic graffiti case
Jan 7, 202623 min
What to expect from (Jewish) Canadian politics in 2026
Jan 5, 202638 min
North Star Live: The future of Israeli democracy, with the Shalom Hartman Institute
Jan 2, 202659 min
These Ontario ‘Family Feud’ winners were proud to represent Judaism onscreen—especially during hard times
Dec 24, 202523 min
Cabinet minister Evan Solomon opens up about ‘unacceptable’ antisemitism in Canada
Dec 22, 202537 min
Canadian Jews overwhelmingly support Israel, but hesitate to call themselves ‘Zionists’. A new study explains why
Dec 19, 202524 min
Canadians in Australia explain how ‘life now is completely different, overnight’
Dec 17, 202527 min
'Tonight when we light our candles, we're not just lighting for us': Canadians react to Australia terror
Dec 15, 202526 min
This Vancouver student just led a $1.6-million fundraising campaign for BBYO
Dec 12, 202525 min
Police confirm even more mezuzahs were stolen from Toronto seniors’ complex. Leaders think the number’s even higher
Dec 10, 202518 min
What's behind the recent flare ups of Holocaust denial in Poland?
Dec 8, 202527 min
A Hallmark movie gone wrong? How a glass-breaking accident took this groom from chuppah to hospital
Dec 5, 202525 min
'We weren't complete until all the hostages returned home': Ottawa seniors launch book of Oct. 7 feelings
Dec 3, 202525 min
Four Israeli leaders are coming to Canada to debate the two-state solution. Meet the 'no" side.
Dec 1, 202530 min
How Israeli Rabbi Leo Dee rebuilt his life, with Canadian help, after Hamas killed wife, two daughters
Nov 28, 202529 min
New Quebec law coming to ban public prayers, prayer rooms on campus, in wider secularism push
Nov 26, 202528 min
[From the archives] Meet the real rabbi who starred in Drake’s controversial new music video
Nov 24, 202515 min
[In Good Faith] How a Palestinian and a Jewish Canadian are trying to depolarize the country
Nov 21, 202535 min
Catching up on the Sherman murder mystery [From the archives]
Nov 19, 202522 min
[From the archives] Struggling to afford your first home? This Jewish-backed investment firm wants to help
Nov 14, 202524 min
Their Jewish-Muslim friendship was destroyed after Oct. 7—until they found a way to reconcile
Nov 13, 202533 min
Untold Jewish WWII and IDF veterans' stories revealed in new nonfiction book
Nov 10, 202526 min
Untouched for decades, a Hungarian Holocaust survivor's memoir is now a Canadian podcast series
Nov 7, 202533 min
Israeli journalist Lahav Harkov explains life in post-ceasefire Israel
Nov 5, 202533 min
Why Jewish heroine Hannah Senesh is having her moment of renewed interest
Nov 3, 202525 min
Honourable Menschen: Her paper heart from Auschwitz remains a powerful symbol of Holocaust survival
Oct 31, 202528 min
'Edgy for a rabbi, clean for a comedian': Meet the Orthodox rabbi comic mocking antisemites onstage
Oct 29, 202524 min
Support group Ha'ikar offers a 'brave space' for young Canadian Jews post Oct. 7
Oct 27, 202519 min
A famous Jewish pilot's vintage plane could be scrapped. This man is on a mission to save it
Oct 24, 202523 min
Drumming, chanting, climate change: Canada's Jewish Renewal movement is growing
Oct 22, 202526 min
Israel’s antisemitism envoy opens up about why she quit—and what comes next
Oct 20, 202526 min
Why this Oct. 7, Kingston’s Jewish community built a sukkah outside City Hall
Oct 17, 202524 min
With Israeli hostages set to return, Canadian Oct. 7 victims’ families are still seeking justice
Oct 10, 202523 min
‘When I tell the story, it is therapeutic’: These Canadians are still on the front lines, 2 years after Oct. 7
Oct 6, 202531 min
Barry Avrich vows to help rebuild kibbutz on Gaza border as ‘The Road Between Us’ releases in theatres
Oct 3, 202526 min
This reporter made a film about his father’s dying days, turning grief into love
Oct 1, 202523 min
Why this acclaimed Indigenous leader opposes Canada’s recognition of Palestinian statehood
Sep 29, 202530 min
Mensch of Steel? Comic books are on the curriculum at this synagogue’s Sunday school
Sep 26, 202526 min
Ottawa’s new hate crime laws ‘a step in the right direction’, Jewish leaders say
Sep 22, 202526 min
Two scions of a prominent Winnipeg rabbinic family are now helming the city’s biggest shuls
Sep 19, 202531 min
Sault Ste. Marie’s next generation vows to carry on Jewish life, especially for these coming High Holidays
Sep 17, 202526 min
Slain law professor Dan Markel's Canadian family hopes for more time with his kids, after new guilty verdict
Sep 15, 202525 min
What it was like at the world premiere of ‘The Road Between Us’
Sep 12, 202528 min
University is back in session. What are Jewish students walking into?
Sep 10, 202526 min
As the UN General Assembly meets this week, they’ll have a vocal new critic: Linda Frum
Sep 8, 202527 min
Harvard experts warn Diaspora Jews are suffering from ‘traumatic invalidation’ after Oct. 7
Sep 5, 202530 min
How Ottawa’s Jewish community is reacting to the Loblaws stabbing attack
Sep 3, 202528 min
Menschwarmers: This Canadian athlete drew a swastika on a Jewish student’s dorm room. The New York Yankees drafted him anyway
Aug 29, 202539 min